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At long last, that hybrid hocus-pocus has a point

Last week a man in the Top Gear audience gave me some wire. It didn't appear to be the best present I'd ever received until he explained what it was for. "It's so you can connect your iPod to your mobile phone," he said. Now I'm a man who likes a gadget, so I thanked him profusely and turned to go. Then I thought of something. Why would I want to connect my iPod to my mobile phone? What would they possibly have to say to one another? It would be like slotting George Bush into the back of Hillary Clinton. Fun, in a "look at that" sort of way, but a bit pointless. Which brings me on to the BlackBerry. I'm told by those who've invested that this is the biggest leap forward for mankind since the invention of fire, and that when you've had one for a week